On November 4, 1791, a Western Confederacy of Native American warriors led by Little Turtle and Blue Jacket decimated Arthur St. Clair's expedition near the Wabash River in present-day Ohio. The confederation's 1,000 warriors struck at dawn, killing 632 soldiers and wounding 264… pic.twitter.com/eKspU4gB6N
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) January 22, 2026
.@daviddeutschoxf has said that everyone, when they are most creative, is Popperian—whether they know it or not. And if that mindset could be bottled and spread, humanity would take a massive leap forward.
— Anders K. (@Falliblemusings) January 9, 2026
Don't buy it? Here is Elon Musk, the world’s highest-impact human,… pic.twitter.com/rY3yCMl9Wn
This is one of my favorite moments on the internet.
— Sovey (@SoveyX) January 21, 2026
A YouTuber is walking around SpaceX, asking questions like a normal curious person who actually understands rockets.
He points something out, Elon Musk pauses, thinks about it, and goes: “Thanks, we’re going to fix that.”… pic.twitter.com/j5BhLwu0Iv
Blaming Climate Change pic.twitter.com/scDlt9l9LH
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) January 21, 2026
You've heard of the studies where they give the same dataset/research question to a bunch of researchers and they tend to get different answers, right?
— John B. Holbein (@JohnHolbein1) January 21, 2026
Why is that?
This new working paper shows that it has a lot to do with data cleaning.
This is consistent with Gelman's… pic.twitter.com/FClI8VtosB
You're right, Amy. I will add the footnote I always add when commenting on the film: Gene Kranz was an authentic hero on Apollo 13 and his role is accurately portrayed. What the film didn't cover was that Gene's White Team left Mission Control an hour after the accident, and… https://t.co/8YZM0IHwDr
— Charles Murray (@charlesmurray) January 21, 2026
Now and then I have to conduct family business in my ancestral homeland in very rural southern Mississippi where my family has been for 216 years. In the course of such things, I have to interact with the county courthouse, tax assessor, etc in county seats in cities with…
— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) January 20, 2026
Olavinlinna, St. Olaf's Castle, Finland, is the northernmost medieval stone castle in Europe. Finished in 1499 by a Danish-Swedish noble to secure the border areas against Russia. Modernized in the 18th century. Never captured in battle. pic.twitter.com/5NLdIlmLsx
— Wrath Of Gnon (@wrathofgnon) January 22, 2026
People think I do all the cooking for myself and my husband because I have some trad belief that men don’t belong in the kitchen. The truth is that I am Italian and my husband is English, and I do not believe any English person of any gender belongs in my kitchen.
— Icona (@iconawrites) January 20, 2026
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